Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-26

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and Jim Fiske, and Robespler1e, the
friend Of the French guillotine, and ell
J the liars, thieves, house-buruers, gar
rioters, pickpockets and libertines of all
! the centuries. They have all got crowns,
and thrones, and hsrps, and sceptres, and
| when the chant they sing: "Thanksgiv-
| ing, and honor, and glory, and power to
the broad religion that let US all into
heaven without repentance and faith IN
those disgraceful dogmas OF ecclesiasti-
cal old fogyism."
! My text gives me grand opportunity
Of saying { useful word to all young men
who are now forming habits for life
time. OF what use to stOlemason or
bricklayeT is PLUMB line? Why not
build the wall by the unaided eye and
| hard? Because they are insufficient, be
cause if there be DETECTION in the wall
it caDnct further on be corrected. Be-
cause by the law OF g.avitation O wall
must be straight fl order
TO BE SYMMETRICAL
and safe. A young man is in danger of
! getting defect in his wall OF character
that may never be corrected. One of the
best friends ever had died OF delirium
tremens at sixty years OF age, though ne
had not since twenty-one years of age
before which he had been dissipated-
touched intoxicating liquor until that par
ticular car0u5al thSS took lin of. Not
feeling well N street On hot summer
day, he stepped into drug store, Just as
yCu and l would have done, and asked for
g dose Of something 70 make himfeel bet
ter And there was alcohol in the dose:
and that one drop aroused the old apoe-
tite, and he entered the first liquor store,
and stayed there until thoroughly under
the power OF rum. He entered his home
Il raviug maniac, his wife and daughters
fleeing from his presence, until he wss
taken to the city hospital to die. The
combuatible material Of eerly habit he'd
lgin quiet nearly forty years, snG that one
spark ignited the conhagrati0n. R4mem-
Der that the wall may be one hundred feet
nigh, and yet detection one foot from
the foundation affects the entire structure.
And il you live hundred years and DO
. right the LAST eighty years, you may new
eTthelesS do something a. twenty yeerS o.
age that will damsge all your earthly ex-
isteuCe. Ali you who have built houses
} for yourself or Tor others, am | not right
IN saying TO these young men, you can
: not build w&il so high as to be indie
: pendent CT the character Of it's founda-
ti0n? a man before thirty years of age
nav commit enough sin to lSst him life.
time. A cat that mas killed one pigeon
2 cannot be cured. Keep it from killing
? the first pigeon. Now John, or George,
r Or Charles, or william, or Alexander, OF
) Henry, OF whatever be your Cnristi2n
e name or surname, say here and now: "Nc
= wild oats for me,
: NO CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
$
I stories for me, no Sunday sprees for me
: l am going to start right and keep OF
0 right. God help me, for l am very weak
{ From the throne OF etsrnsi righteousness
i let down to me the principles by which
: can be guided in building everything
L from foundation 10 capS5Gae. Lord God
: me plumb liue!"
/ Lord Nelson's general direction Whel
:: going into naval battle was, no man cal
J, DO wrong wac places his snip close along
e Size that Of the enemy. My friend, you
e will never Go wrong Il you keep your iif
st close alongside the Ten Commandments
Do right, and you caU be as brave as Ma
e ria Theresa, VINO rode up the Hui Of De
e tiance and shook her sword at the lou
e corners of the earth.
II "But," you say, "you saG: US youn
folks out from all fun" O, no! l TX
g fun. I believe in fuu. | have mad lot
" Of ii IL my time. But have not had t.
J. 90 into paths Of sin to lind it. No cred
II 10 me, but because CT an eXtraordiaar
parental example and Influence l wa
kept from outward transgressions, thoug
II my heart was bad enough and deape,
I ately wicked. | have had fun illimltablt
= though l never swCre one oath, enc neve
-e gambIed for 80 much as the value Of
: pin, and never saw the inside of hsur
, of sin save IS when ten years ago, wit
IL commissioner of police and deteCtiY
u and two elders OF my church, 1 explore
ID these cities By midnight, not out Of cur
E. o3ity, but ,A2t might in pulpit discours
1r set before the people the poverty and Il
~ horrors OF underground city life. Ye
IL though | never was intoxicated for 6
ID instant, and never committed one act
re dissoluteness, restrained only by Il
lie grsce of Goo, without which restraint
We would have gone haadlong to the bott0
T. OF infamY, l have
IN HAD so MUCH FUN
e. that don't believe there is man On Il
ST planet in the present time who has hs
)p more. Hear 1t, men and boys, Wome
e and girls, ali the fun is on the side
10 right. Sir may seem attractive, but it
o. deathfu, snd like the manchineel, trt
CT whose dews are poisonous. The on
We genuine happiness is in Oh honest Chri
It, tan life. The Chippewa, wan
y, ing TO see God, blaCkel
ne his face with charcoal and fas
ak till ne has vision Of what be calls Go
ey My God l can see best when take Il
elr hat off and let the sunshine blaze in Il
nd face, and after reasonable breakfast. {
en- is not God OF blsckness and starvatio
1g but OF light and plenitnde, end the glo
of the noondsy sun is Egyptian midnig
y, compared to it. There they go-tT
IN brothers. The one was converted Ye
IS, ago in church, one Sunday mornii
no during prayer, or sermon, or hymn.
u one knew it at the time. The persons
q either side Of MIN suspected nothing, b
u il that young mans soul this proce
n, went en-: "Lord, here SIN, young N
is. amid the temptations of city life, ais
am afraid 10 risk them alone; come s
be my pardon and my help; save NE ftc
1ul making the mistake thst some Of my CO
he rades are making, and save me now
CT And quicker than fash God roll
On, heaven into his soul. He is Just SIS 10
Ter as he used to be, is, just as brilliant as